Recent trends in design education

Abstract

This paper gives a brief review of recent trends in design education in schools in the UK. There has been a steady growth over the last decade of a grass-roots development of design education in schools. This has been accompanied by a parallel growth in the study of the implications of design for child learning and pedagogic practice. Significantly, in the last four or five years there has also been a growing interest in these developments amongst academics, industrialists, politicians, and a much wider general audience than teachers and educationalists.